Archive for the ‘Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity’ Category
Thursday, March 10th, 2005
I'm wary of claims that it's the first in the world but the decision to declare Galway an anti-racist city - with resonances of the nuclear-free cities declared in yesteryear - is at least a positive move. For those who wondered what difference it would make for Labour to gain ...
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Wednesday, March 9th, 2005
Just before Pete Tridish's talk to the participatory media reading group yesterday I got word over Prometheus's Stubblefield list that:In a precedent-setting move,
fast-food industry leader Taco Bell Corp., a division of Yum! Brands
(NYSE: YUM), has agreed to work with the Florida-based farm worker
organization, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), to ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
You can't say the Bushies don't have long memories
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
The GEO (my union) is campaigning on visa-immigration reform, specifically the ability of students to travel in and out of the country. As they say:visa restrictions and lengthy security checks have created an increasingly difficult situation for international students, post-doctoral scholars, and other academics studying and working in the United ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
This is what a Red State looks like.
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Sunday, November 28th, 2004
The Guardian have a touching article on the Gypsy holocaust, based on an interview with a survivor who is the author of a forthcoming book on the topic.
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2004
Michael D Higgins' speech launching Labour's campaign against the referendum on citizenship is inspiring and informative - closing with the much quoted "I cannot accept that it is desirable or just to introduce a change that will determine that two children, born in the same maternity ward on the same ...
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Monday, May 10th, 2004
To add weight to the argument that the citizenship referendum in Ireland is racist, it turns out that the Irish government does not track the number of passports issued at embassies overseas. I've said for some time that the 'grandparent' rule - whereby those who have a grandparent born ...
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Sunday, May 9th, 2004
So here's the situation: while only citizens are allowed to vote in referendums in Ireland, all those resident in an area are allowed to vote in elections for local government. The problem was that following the latest iteration of the electoral legislation, you have to present one form of identification ...
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Monday, March 15th, 2004
Pat Rabitte has released an interesting statement on the government's planned referendum:
Ireland seems to have produced another politician who automatically knows what is good for the Irish people from looking into his own heart. For Minister McDowell to assert ...
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